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How the internet has influenced fashion |
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I still remember the chill of fear. “I’ll have to tell Anna Wintour this will never catch on,” I thought as I sat in Cyberia, the first internet café in London, assigned by the editor-in-chief of American Vogue to swap fashion chit-chat with a reporter in New York. I recall the utter boredom as I waited for my co-reporter’s replies to appear, letter by letter, on the screen. In the end, I snuck out to a payphone, dialled Manhattan and we called the experiment off. Given designers in 1994 couldn’t even type, what possible use was this internet thing going to be to fashion? |
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